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Issue 232: A computer for your agent, Claude chats leaked and OSS Burnout

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23-25/09/2026: WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America

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Hello fellow developer, the EU is clamping down on AI deepfakes and AI Agents go rogue all over all the place. Of course we also have some security issues, and tools to counteract them. Most of all, though, we are all hot (my flat is 32 degrees, no matter what I do), so time to read a few interesting bits and get ready to hit California next week. We will be in SF/MTV/SJ - Silicon Valley - from the 10th to the 20th, so if you have an interesting meetup or someone to interview for Coffee With Developers, drop Chris an email. But first check out the future of Hacktoberfest and Hackathons in general…

Right after DevRelCon New York, we sat down the Mike Swift of Major League Hacking to talk about the changes in Open Source, education and community events in the time of AI and agents. It was an excellent conversation with lots of details, go check it out. 

Our friends at RenderATL are bringing the global developer community together in Atlanta next week (August 12-13, 2026) for two days of conversations, connection and innovation across AI, software development, emerging technology and career growth. RenderATL has become an important part of Atlanta’s rise as a global technology hub, creating space for developers, technologists and industry leaders to connect in person, exchange ideas and build meaningful community. Can’t make it to Atlanta? You can still be part of it. Tune in live next week at RenderATL.com and experience select conversations and moments from the conference from wherever you are.

What's happening in AI

• Should You Self-Host Inference? The honest economics of running your own models
• Your agent needs a computer, not a container - Cloudflare OS on GitHub
• MirrorCode - what's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?
• How much can you delegate to agents? 
• The AI Aesthetic

Security and Privacy

• The secure way to release an npm package in 2026
• How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners
• Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google - BBC reports
• Disrupting supply chain attacks on npm and GitHub Actions
• Comparing Open-Source AI Code Security Harnesses

Software Development

• Best image formats for websites: JPEG, PNG, WebP, SVG, and AVIF compared
• Your JS Date Is Lying to You
• Why care about programming languages?
• Your SPA Is Leaking Memory. Soak Test It
• Why npm Dependency Trees Are So Big

Tips, Tricks and Tools

• LLM Counter-Defaults - dial down the sycophancy
• Neodisk Read-only macOS disk space visualizer
• Nativ puts frontier intelligence on your desk.
• Instantly preview Markdown files on Mac in the familiar GitHub style.
• Agent skills, shared across your team

Procrastination corner and Wonderful Weird Web

• Bringing Privacy Back to Hotels
• Live Train map
• Cheap food map

• GitHub Stacked pull requests are now in public preview
• git rebase -i is not that scary
• Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together
• Open Source Must Be Fun (Or It Will Die)
• Devtools must be open source

Companies to check:

• IT Service Engineer (Cloud) at ROSEN Technology
• Agile Full Stack Engineer at synava
• Developer – RAG & Knowledgraph at Riverty
• Java-Entwickler at Finanz Informatik
• C/C++ Developer at Power Plus Communications

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